FamilySearch Collection Update: New Records Added Online for Czech Republic, Mexico, and U.S.

Received May 11 from FamilySearch.org:

Eight new searchable collections were updated or added this week at FamilySearch.org—millions of new free images and records.

This week the complete name indexes for the states of Alabama, Colorado, and Illinois were published online at FamilySearch’s Record Search pilot (FamilySearch.org, click Search Records, and then click Record Search pilot) or Beta.FamilySearch.org.

The Delaware state birth records, 1875 Minnesota State Census, and Illinois, Cook County birth records were also added.

Also released was a digital image collection of church records from Litomerice, Czech Republic—60,000 images! Consumers will see these types of collections more and more online as FamilySearch digitizes microfilms in its Granite Mountain Records Vault. Instead of a microfilm reader in a local family history center, patrons use FamilySearch’s image viewer online to search these high quality digital collections—and they are accessible 24/7.

See the chart below for the complete list of all the newly added or improved collections.

None of this would be possible without the great contributions of many online FamilySearch volunteers. These individuals donate the time and effort needed to make these collections freely available to FamilySearch patrons. If you would like to help by donating a few minutes here and there online with projects of personal interest, become a FamilySearch community volunteer at FamilySearchIndexing.org. Many hands produce great work. Thank you for your support!

Collection Name	Indexed Records	Digital Images	Comments
Czech Republic, Litomerice State Regional Archive Church Records 1552-1905, pt. 03 - WP		60573	Browsable images only
Mexico Census 1930 Index, Yucatan	378550	1061300
U.S Delaware State Birth Records 1861-1922 - FSI	121234	93600
U.S Illinois, Cook County Birth Registers 1873-1908	1240000	33245
U.S 1875 Minnesota State Census	475000	13600	Must be registered to see images.
US Federal Census, 1910, Alabama	1870520	46763
US Federal Census, 1910, Colorado	767680	19192
US Federal Census, 1910, Illinois	5024520	125613

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52 Weeks of Online American Digital Archives and Databases: Delaware

This is the eighth post in a weekly series of Online American Digital Archives and Databases found for free at state, county, municipal, college and university history, library, and archive websites, as well as public and private library and museum sites, and historical and genealogical society sites.

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Delaware Public Archives Digital Archives - http://archives.delaware.gov/exhibits/exhibits-toc.shtml - construction drawings, currency notes, original legislation, Seventeenth Century papers, Civil War records, petitions for Naturalization, historic audio clips of interviews and radio broadcasts concerning service in WWII, desegregation, recycling, and baseball, historical maps of Delaware and the Mid-Atlantic region, ranging from 1688 to the 20th Century

Delaware Public Archives Historical Markers Program - http://archives.delaware.gov/markers/markers-search.shtml

Delaware Public Archives Probates Records Database - http://archives.delaware.gov/collections/probate.shtml - "These indexes are the primary finding aid to our holdings of manuscript probate records for all three counties from c. 1680 to c. 1925. These are not indexes to all the names appearing in the records, but only the names of the deceased for whom the files were created. Contained in each index are the individual's name, and a date or dates. The dates correspond to the date of the documents within that individual's file and may refer to a date of the will or to a date for probate to begin."

Delaware Historical Society - http://www.hsd.org/library.htm - while there is no data per se on this website, there are many indexes of the collections they do have, as well as images from the photograph collection

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University of Delaware Library Digital Collections - http://fletcher.lib.udel.edu/ - Civil War letters and diaries, handwritten Lincoln documents, photographs, family papers, Civil War lithographic prints, postcards, digital bibliography , historic maps and charts

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Barratt's Chapel and Museum - http://www.barrattschapel.org/ - houses a research library emphasizing Methodist history and the archives of the Peninsula-Delaware Annual Conference; the website has indexes of the collection, history and biography, and some photographs of the museum exhibits

Diocese of Wilmington Catholic Cemeteries Burial Database - http://www.cdow.org/csdatabase.html


Hagley Museum and Library Digital Archives - http://digital.hagley.org/ - "provides online access to a growing selection of items from the library's collections of images, documents, and publications related to the history of business, technology, and society." Collections contain the following: American Iron and Steel Institute / Keller Collection; Dallin Aerial Survey Company, 1924-1941; DuPont Automobiles, 1903-1912; General Image Collection; Hagley Research Reports; Lammot du Pont, Jr. Aeronautical Collection, 1783-1950; Litchfield Collection on the History of Fatty Materials; Lukens Steel Company, 1810-1973; Matheson Automobile Company, 1903-1912; Miss America Programs, 1945-1967; Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, 1917-1983; P.S. du Pont/Longwood, 1840-1954; Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, circa 1930; Gentieu Collection of Brandywine Valley Images, 1880-1920; Postcards of Motels and Roadside Attractions, 1930-1960; Postcards of Railroad Stations, 1903-1972; Pusey & Jones Corporation, 1865-1955; Trade Catalogs and Pamphlets; Warren-Ehret Company Collection, circa 1900; Wawa, Inc., 1870-2006; and William G. McGowan / MCI Digital Collection

Winterthur Digital Collections - http://content.winterthur.org/ - "Winterthur Library is a recognized center for advanced study and is dedicated to the understanding and appreciation of America's artistic, cultural, social, and intellectual history from colonial times into the twentieth century." The digital collections include cigar labels, bookplates, quilts, Shaker photographs and postcards, sketchbooks, mathematical playing cards, French candy wrappers, period rooms, autochromes of Winterthur Gardens, furniture designs and more. Great social history resource!

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Check out my Delaware Online Historical Directories and Delaware Online Historical Newspapers pages.